URL

Computers.

Uniform Resource Locator: a protocol for specifying addresses on the Internet.

an address that identifies a particular file on the Internet, usually consisting of the protocol, as http, followed by the domain name.

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Examples from the Web for url

Contemporary Examples of url

“Somebody suggested [we give him] a $1,000 baseball signed by Mickey Mantle [in exchange for the URL],” Robinson told me.
Ben Carson’s Bizarrely Serious, Seriously Bizarre Campaign Crew
Olivia Nuzzi
November 12, 2014
Its URL now leads web users to a statement from the Vice's editors who say they "apologize to anyone who was hurt or offended."
Eva Chen Named Editor of Lucky Magazine; Vice Fashion Spread Features Literary Suicides
The Fashion Beast Team
June 18, 2013
To get there, says Gawker, you have to download some kind of anonymizing software first and then visit this URL.
My Bitcoin (Mis)adventure
Winston Ross
April 4, 2013

British Dictionary definitions for url

URL

abbreviation for

uniform resource locator; a standardized address of a location on the internet, esp on the World Wide Web

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Word Origin and History for url

URL

by 1990, initialism from uniform resource locator.

url in Science

URL

[yōō′är-ĕl′]

Short for Uniform Resource Locator. An Internet address (for example, http://www.hmco.com/trade/), usually consisting of the access protocol (http), the domain name (www.hmco.com), and optionally the path to a file or resource residing on that server (trade).

url in Culture

URL

An abbreviation for Universal Resource Locator, a title that refers to the formal address of a document on the Internet.